An Historical Account Of The Settlements Of Scotch Highlanders

Chapter 15

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DISTINGUISHED HIGHLANDERS IN AMERICAN INTEREST.

General Alexander McDougall--General Lachlan McIntosh--General Arthur St. Clair--Serjeant Macdonald 398

APPENDIX.

Note A.--First Emigrants to America 417

Note B.--Letter of Donald Macpherson 417

Note C.--Emigration during the Eighteenth Century 419

Note D.--Appeal to the Highlanders lately arrived from Scotland 422

Note E.--Ingratitude of the Highlanders 426

Note F.--Were the Highlanders Faithful to their Oath to the Americans 426

Note G.--Marvellous Escape of Captain McArthur 430

Note H.--Highlanders in South Carolina 442

Note I.--Alexander McNaughton 443

Note J.--Allan McDonald's Complaint to the President of Congress 444

Note K.--The Glengarry Settlers 445

Note to Chapter VIII 448

Note L.--Moravian Indians 448

Note M.--Highlanders Refused Lands in America 450

Note N.--Captain James Stewart commissioned to raise a company of Highlanders 453

List of Subscribers 456

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Battle of Culloden Frontispiece

Coire-nan-Uriskin 26

House of Henry McWhorter 52

View of Battle-Field of Alamance 55

Scottish India House 90

Barbacue Church, where Flora Macdonald Worshipped 144

Johnson Hall 204

View of the Valley of Wyoming 218

Highland Officer 256

Old Blockhouse Fort Duquesne 281

General Sir Archibald Campbell 397

Brigadier General Simon Fraser 382

General Simon Fraser of Loval 387

Sir Allan Maclean, Bart 391

Flora Macdonald 394

General Alexander McDougall 398

General Lachlan McIntosh 402

General Arthur St. Clair 405

Sergeant Macdonald and Colonel Gainey 413

PARTIAL LIST OF PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES CONSULTED.

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Celtic Monthly, Inverness, 1876-1888.

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St. Clair (Arthur.) Narrative, Philadelphia, 1812.

Stewart (David.) Sketches of the Highlanders, Edinburgh, 1822.

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